> And for publisher there probably isn’t the same network effect as for Word/Excel/Powerpoint.

There isn't because any serious print shop will laugh you out the door if you come to them with a Publisher file.

Publisher is fine for home/office printing, and you will probably get away with it at your local corner shop that does digital printing on a Xerox box in the back of the shop.

But if you're sending stuff off to the big-boys you will suddenly find yourself needing to adhere to artwork preflight settings, colour profiles, PDF and TAC specs.

Not only will the printer give you validation settings files you can load into Acrobat and Indesign, but if there are issues, the printer's preflight team will be more willing (and able !) to help you if you are using industry-standard tools.

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Terretta 20 hours ago | parent [-]

> There isn't because any serious print shop will laugh you out the door if you come to them with a Publisher file.

You say this like customers don't show up with a PowerPoint file.

	▲	trinix912 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm pretty sure they not only show up with a PowerPoint file, but one with missing/nonembedded fonts, web images, perhaps even a video in there somewhere. At least that's been my experience with people sending me stuff to print.
	▲	brendoelfrendo 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		When I did IT work for my university, I was in charge of a big plotter printer that the science students used to print posters with summaries of their research for conferences. The only format I ever got was PowerPoint. Based on the number of search results for "powerpoint research poster template", it looks like this PowerPoint is still the format of choice. I never really thought about it, but it is kind of odd that the same community that loves using LaTeX for document formatting and typesetting research papers is also using PowerPoint as a desktop publishing substitute.